Lowest Reported Average Reported Highest Reported
$192000 $216000 $295000

These results are provided for different medical and surgical specialties based on surveys of physicians in different medical specialities, and are publically available on the web (see the Physicians Search website). This information can be used in several ways, specifically in evaluating different physician job possibilities.

Of all the medical specialties emergency medicine is most amenable to locum tenens work, and the pay scale is often pegged to the national average emergency medicine physician salary. The pay can be adjusted by local cost-of-living difference from the national average.

In evaluating a physician job offer it is important to know the average pay for a given specialty. Independent of locum tenens positions, the national average of physician salaries in different specialties is often used as a target: a physician who generates the average patient income for the specialty receives the average . Bonuses are often pegged to the amount of income generated above the average.

The average physician salary for an internist (see Internal Medicine Survey) can be used as a benchmark for comparison with other medical specialities.

Information about other medical jobs and nursing jobs is available.

Source: Allied Physicians, Salary Survey 2003-2006
(Previous values from Physicians Search 1998 Salary Survey)

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